What is "pocketbook"

Usage examples of "pocketbook".

Sosia had left me a wooden tablet, unlaced from one of those four-page pocketbooks and then inscribed deeply with a stylus in a round hand that had never done serious writing: Didius Falco, I know a place where they may keep the silver pigs.

Joyce confided to Ashby that she was virtually certain she knew who had removed the scarf from under the pocketbook that evening.

The Duke de Matalone sat down, drew out his purse and his pocketbook, and put two thousand ducats in the bank, begging pardon of the others for doubling the usual sum in favour of the stranger.

He drinks to Mrs. Bagnet with a warmth approaching to rapture, engages himself for that day twelvemonth more than thankfully, makes a memorandum of the day in a large black pocketbook with a girdle to it, and breathes a hope that Mrs.

Certain companies are throwing secret amounts of money to Linda Daschle to line her pocketbook, violating all tenets of decency.

An examination of his pocketbook and cardcase shows beyond any question that the deceased is none other than Sir Francis Norton, of Deane Park, who has only within the last year come into the baronetcy.

She wrote their number in pencil on a scrap of paper from her pocketbook and then dialled it immediately.

The morning was bright, the air cool and clean as I followed the sidewalk along Leigh Street and turned south on Ninth, passing police headquarters, my pocketbook over my shoulder and an accordion file tucked under an arm.

I removed the gun from my pocketbook and cautiously returned it to the cookie jar.

There were some dresses and sweaters, shoes, gloves, a small box with bits of costume jewelry, and a pocketbook.

She took up three folding chairs when she sat down, and she had her pocketbook filled with Ding Dongs.

And we stand in line with open pocketbooks and tongues hanging in greedy anticipation to sell them our corporations and real estate to make a fast buck.

His broad ministerial gestures described the bounty of the promised harvest and the warranted thankfulness for a full grain elevator, fuller pocketbooks, still fuller stomachs.

She was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and her pocketbook was trimmed with something that certainly looked like mink.

The detective laid off his outer garments, made a few changes in his toilet and putting the goldsmith's declaration, with the ring and the bullet in his pocketbook, he went down to the first floor of the building, in one wing of which was the apartment occupied by the Chief.